Chapter 2
The holiday season started way before Thanksgiving in my line of work. QVC’s big Christmas in July celebration brought a noticeable increase in deliveries, and though online shopping seemed to calm slightly during the lingering dog days of August, the moment school started up again, so did the longer hours in my truck. By the time October came, it was balls to the wall scanning, stacking, scanning again, and finally dropping off. At the end of another long day transporting boxes from sss, JC Penney, and Walmart.com, I was sitting in my living room after a hot shower. Boxer shorts my only attire, I had the heat jacked up to seventy-five, perfect for me and my obese tomcat, Pocket. He’d fit in mine when I found him abandoned on the side of the road one day. Hence his name. Eightee
